Corrections

The following errors appeared in Don Carveth's review oí Erik Erikson and the American Psyche, by Daniel Burston, in the last issue of this journal.

The second sentence of the second paragraph on page 108 should read,

This was followed by a range of critiques by other authors, including , which Erikson failed to rebut adequately and from which he never quite recovered.

The third sentence of the third paragraph on the same page should read,

… [Erikson's Jewish mother] refused to reveal the true identity of her son's father right to the end of her life.

The last paragraph of page 109 should read,

All in all, despite his deep respect for the master, Erikson was in fundamental disagreement with what he described as Freud's “centaur model of man” as a creature half beast and half human, his conception of the fundamental human conflict as one between the forces of nature and those of culture, his view of our sociality as something not in itself biologically grounded but rather superimposed upon our biology, and his projection of our distinctively and perversely human aggression onto the “beast” in us when, as Erikson recognized, only humans are beastly while animals never are. In Burston's estimation, it was Erikson's deep need for belonging and acceptance by the psychoanalytic “family” that caused him to minimize such fundamental differences instead of elaborating the lucid critique hidden in his excessively polite and deferential writings.

We apologize for these errors, and hope that the corrections help to clarify those parts of the review that were affected.